Thursday, October 11, 2012

THE SPENSERIAN STANZA

This stanza that the poet Spenser made
To tell his tales of knights in Arthur’s time,
Consisted of an interwoven braid
Of lines, each ending with a patterned rhyme
In what became a classic paradigm
That poets ever thence would reengage,
Though few could fashion verses so sublime
As this great master of the Golden Age—
Except that Stratford man who ruled both page & stage.